:February 4, 2010 Applying STRATFOR analysis to breaking news. The Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a predominantly Shiite coalition led by Iran's closest ally in Iraq, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), said it rejects the court of appeal's Feb. 3 decision to permit more than 500 candidates that had been banned for alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath party (KK: which is predominantly Sunni) to participate in the March parliamentary elections. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition also questioned the appeals court's decision. Though the United States has been working behind the scenes via al-Maliki to repeal the Baathist ban, U.S. efforts have not been sufficient to defuse the threat of a revived Sunni insurgency caused by Sunni political disenfranchisement. Iran is working through its Iraqi Shiite allies to keep the debaathification controversy alive and thus complicate the U.S. position in Iraq. iraqi dinar